Phonological Theory

John A. Goldsmith is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. He is author of Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology (Blackwell, 1990) and editor of The Handbook of Phonology (Blackwell, 1995).

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 1John Goldsmith1 From The Sound Pattern of English: Phonetic and Phonological Representation 17Noam Chomsky and Morris Haile2 On the Role of Notation in Generative Phonology 22James D. McCawey3 From Cyclic Phonology to Lexical Phonology 34Paul Kparsky4 The Cycle in Phonology: Stress in Palestinian, Maltese, and Spanish 63Miccael K. Brame5 On Phonotactically Motivated Rules 84Alan F. Sommerstein6 Harmonic Phonology 91John Goldsmith7 Generalized Alignment 102John J. McCartny and Alan S. Prince8 An Overview of Autosegmental Phonology 137John Goldsmith9 A Prosodic Theory of Nonconcatenative Morphology 162John J. McCartny10 From CV Phonology: A Generative Theory of the Syllable 185G. N. Clements and S. J. Keyser11 The Geometry of Phonological Features        201G. N. Clements12 Inalterability in CV Phonology 224Bruce Hayes13 Prosodic Morphology (1986) 238John J. McCartny and Alan S. Prince14 On the Role of the Obligatory Contour Principle in Phonological Theory 289David Odden15 Phonology with Tiers 303Alan S. Prince16 Immediate Constituents of Mazateco Syllables 313Kenneth L. Pike and Funice Victoria Pike17 The Syllable 328Elisabeth O. Selkirk18 Compensatory Lengthening in Moraic Phonology 351Bruce Hayes19 Syllables 370E. C. Fudge20 On Stress and Linguistic Rhythm 392Mark Liberman and Alan Prince21 Relating to the Grid 405Alan S. Prince22 Extrametricality and English Stress 415Bruce HayesIndex   426

"John Goldsmith's Phonological Theory: The Essential Readings gathers together influential papers from the past thirty years that articulate the questions, critiques, problems, and proposals that have led up to and inform contemporary generative phonology. It can be sued to supplement most of the textbooks available today and will be a valuable resource for the student and professional alike." Michael Kenstowicz, MIT "This collection brings together some of the most significant and influential articles in the history of modern phonological theory. Taken together, these contributions, some of which are not otherwise easily accessible, provide an historical perspective for the specialist and student alike, as well as a comprehensive statement of the issues with which our field continues to be concerned." Larry M. Hyman, University of California at Berkeley "[many of the essays in Goldsmith's book] are classics of modern phonological theory. Goldsmith is surely right in his contention that they are much better read in their original form and we have to be grateful for their reproduction here." Geoffrey Finch, Times Higher Education Supplement "this volume should solidify McMahon's reputations a one of the most inisghtful linguistic theorists currently writing." Eugene Buckley, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania